First Mile Access Networks and Enabling Technologies

Acknowledgments

Ashwin Gumaste: A very special thanks to my advisor and the distinguished chair professor of telecommunications, Dr. Imrich Chlamtac, at the University of Texas at Dallas, for the encouragement he bestowed upon me, as well as for being a strong source of motivation in the optical networking field. A special thanks to Csaba Szabo my employer in BCN. A special thanks to Susumu Kinoshita from Fujitsu Labs Japan for introducing intricacies in the technology. I wish to thank Jeff Norman, CEO of Main.net, for useful information on power-line communication. I wish to thank the two reviewers, Chiara and Priya, for comments and Amy, Jim, and Drew for coordination and development of this book. Also would like to acknowledge support of Dana ...